1-12-09 - SSLP quick report - As usual I'm working on
Suzuki Roshi stuff. Mainly now I'm trying to get the whole archive upgraded
- audio, print, moving, and still images and doing a trip where I'm getting
it all on single hard drives which are then to be shared with teachers in
the lineage, libraries, and so forth. Got all the tapes digitalized, made
six CD sets of them (about 350 discs), added one CD with the transcripts and edited versions of
the lectures, some DVDs with copies of the films and photos. So that's for
the CD/DVD sets to be distributed to the archivist, the SFZC City Center in
SF, Green Gulch Farm in Marin, North Carolina, Germany, and one other place
- maybe Berkeley ZC. Then got it all
on a hard disc and made other hard discs from that. Calling this an archive
subscription as it will be updated a lot. Right now I'm working on getting
it in order, doing a lot of work with the CDs and the hard disc version. As
it gets more together it'll get up on the Internet bit by bit and be more and more
accessible - that's inevitable. There's lots more I could say and tons more in the reports
below. But what I really have to be doing now is to get some
donations [how to do it
there] so that the SFZC keeps supporting the project. They've been supporting
it with the understanding that there would be donations coming in to cover it.
There's a rather low budget considering what we're getting out of this
project - $52,000 for the year - and very low overhead. I live quite cheaply and
do things pretty cheaply - got over 300 lectures digitalized with 6 full CD
sets and a master hard disc and a number of copies. Baker Roshi went through
a bunch of his storage and we found a few lecture tapes and a few
transcripts not in the archive - and a copy of a notebook of Della Goertz's
with lecture notes. There's more of that to do. Right now the digitalized
audio of the lectures is in wave files. One of the next steps would be to
get some mp3s of the lectures so they can go on the Internet and be easier
to deal with in libraries. Onward - more reporting soon.